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I posted this in a PIP FB forum last month.

Audio recording Face to face interviews
Graham Tâf Parsons·Wednesday, 15 February 2017

DBC recommendation 14 – Audio recording should be available for all assessments and the DWP should evaluate what impact it has on the quality and accuracy of assessments.

DBC recommendation 15 – All claimants should be provided with a copy of the assessor’s report as soon as possible after their assessment and have the opportunity to flag up anything in the report that they believe to be inaccurate

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...p-response.pdf

But.....
The Department has asked Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment providers not to offer audio recording of consultations or to provide recording equipment at present. We have not seen any evidence from other disability assessments that audio recording face-to-face consultations would improve the quality of assessments and there was only limited evidence of improvement in the customer experience for some individuals.

The Department is currently evaluating the costs and benefits of the approach to audio recording of Work Capability Assessments.

If there is evidence in support of a more proactive approach to audio recording DWP will review the arrangements for PIP.
As a result, we have asked Capita not to offer audio recording at this stage.

We communicated this message in our responseto the Disability Benefits Consortium’s briefing on the provider pledges. You can find this on the GOV.UK website at

http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads...p-response.pdf

They refuse "digital" recordings as they can be "edited". Hmm... I can edit analogue recordings very easily.

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I also posted this

PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT ASSESSMENT Interpretation of terms
Graham Tâf Parsons·Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Aided
Aided means with
1. the use of an aid or appliance or
2. supervision, prompting or assistance.
Assistance
Assistance means physical intervention by another person and does not include speech.
Assistance Dog
Assistance dog means a dog trained to guide or assist a person with a sensory impairment.
Basic verbal information
Basic verbal information means information in the claimant’s native language conveyed in a simple sentence.
Basic written information
Basic written information means signs, symbols and dates written or printed in the claimant’s native language.
Bathe
Bathe includes getting into or out of an unadapted bath or shower.
Communication support
Communication support means support from a person trained or experienced in communicating with people with specific communication needs including interpreting verbal information into a non-verbal form and vice versa.
Complex budgeting decisions
Complex budgeting decisions means decisions involving
1. calculating household and personal budgets and
2. managing and paying bills and planning future purchases
Complex verbal information
Complex verbal information means information in the claimant’s native languagec onveyed in either more than one sentence or one complicated sentence.
Complex written information
Complex written information means more than one sentence of written or printed standard size text in the claimant’s native language.
Cook
Cook means to heat food at or above waist height.
Dress and undress
Dress and undress includes putting on and taking off socks and shoes.
Engage socially
Engage socially means
1. interact with others in a contextually and socially appropriate manner and
2. understand body language and
3. establish relationships.
Manage incontinence
Manage incontinence means manage involuntary evacuation of the bowel or bladder including use of a collecting device or self-catheterisation and clean oneself afterwards.
Manage medication or therapy
Manage medication or therapy means take medication or undertake therapy, where a failure to do so is likely to result in a deterioration in the claimant’s health.
Medication
Medication means medication to be taken at home which is prescribed or recommended by a registered
1. doctor
2. nurse or
3. pharmacist.
Monitor health
Monitor health means
1. detect significant changes in the claimant’s condition which are likely to lead to
a deterioration in their health and
2. take action advised by a
2.1 registered doctor
2.2 registered nurse or
2.3 health professional who is regulated by the Health Professions Council without which the claimant’s health is likely to deteriorate.
Orientation aid
Orientation aid means a specialist aid designed to assist disabled people to follow a route safely.
Prepare
In the context of food prepare means to make food ready for cooking or eating.
Prompting
Prompting means reminding, encouraging or explaining by another person.
Psychological distress
Psychological distress means distress related to an enduring mental health condition or an intellectual or cognitive impairment.
Read
Read includes reading signs, symbols and words but does not include reading Braille.
Simple budgeting decisions
Simple budgeting decisions means decisions involving
1. calculating the cost of goods and
2. calculating change required after a purchase.
Simple Meal
Simple meal means a cooked one-course meal for one using fresh ingredients.
Social Support
Social support means support from a person trained or experienced in assisting people to engage in social situations.
Stand
Stand means stand upright with at least one biological foot on the ground.
Supervision
Supervision means the continuous presence of another person for the purpose of
ensuring the claimant’s safety.
Take nutrition
Take nutrition means
1. to cut food into pieces and
2. convey food or drink to one’s mouth and
3. chew and swallow food or drink or
4. take nutrition by using a therapeutic source.
Therapeutic source
Therapeutic source means parenteral or enteral tube feeding, using a rate limiting
device such as a delivery system or feed pump.
Therapy
Therapy means therapy to be undertaken at home which is prescribed or recommended by a
1. registered
1.1 doctor
1.2 nurse or
1.3 pharmacist
2. health professional regulated by the Health Professions Council.
Toilet needs
Toilet needs means
1. getting on and off an unadapted toilet and
2. evacuating the bladder and bowel and
3. cleaning oneself afterwards.
Unaided
Unaided means without
1. the use of an aid or appliance or
2. supervision, prompting or assistance

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Originally Posted by denphone

So one has to have two recording bits of equipment and it can only be done with a CD or cassette which frankly went out with the ark.

A few claimants have found twin recorders on Amazon, I bet Amazon are wondering why the sudden desire to buy them....